Edmund Burke: “Excessive grants, followed by violent and arbitrary resumptions, tore to pieces the whole contexture of the government.”

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.

Those who know what virtuous liberty is cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.

The improvements of the National Assembly are superficial, their errors fundamental.

There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust; and therefore I say no more upon it.